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Country: Cook Islands
Capital: Avarua
Currency: new Zealand dollar, cook Islands dollar
Numeric code: 554
Letter code: NZD
Cook Islands – is the name given to both the archipelago in Polynesia, and the self-governing territorial entity, consisting of New Zealand in free Association with 1965. The total area of the archipelago is 236.7 square kilometers. Three Islands is uninhabited, the other settled about fifteen thousand people. However, a microscopic country has its own capital, Avarua, and even personal money – cook Islands dollar, which equals one hundred cents.
It should be mentioned that it is entirely insular currency, devoid of international circulation and of the code. Therefore, the value of the coins of the cook Islands very low. Functions of the main money sign here takes the new Zealand dollar.
Catalogue of coins of the cook Islands began to be laid in 1972. At first it was staffed with 1 dollar and 1, 2, 5, 10 and 50 cents. However, in 1983, the 1 and 2 cents to produce stopped. 1987 brought new coins very peculiar forms:
• 1 "toothed" dollar;
• 2 triangular dollar;
• $ 5 dvenadtsatiperstnoi configuration.
By 2006, the island ranks no money left denominations below one dollar, the ability to conduct calculations. However, to buy coins of the cook Islands, lost pay, quite real. They should complement your collection as the price of coins of the cook Islands is pleasantly moderate.
